Honda’s ZR-V receives NASVA’s highest rating of Five Stars for 2023 automobile safety performance

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and the National Agency for Automotive Safety and Victims’ Aid (NASVA) announced the results of their evaluation of the automobile safety performance of Honda’s new “ZR-V” on May 10, 2024, announcing that the car had received the highest rating of the “Five Star Award.”

“Automobile Assessment” evaluates and publishes automobile safety performance

The National Agency for Automotive Safety and Victims’ Aid (NASVA), a third-party organization that evaluates automobile safety performance, has established evaluation standards for automobile safety performance, and the Five Star Award is one of the highest safety performance evaluations given to automobiles that meet those standards. This evaluation indicates a high evaluation of an automobile’s collision safety and advanced safety devices, and is an important indicator for consumers when choosing a car.

Starting in fiscal 2020, the rating will be called “Automobile Safety Performance 2020,” and will comprehensively evaluate collision safety performance, preventive safety performance, and automatic accident emergency notification systems. The latest “Automobile Safety Performance 2022” rating was released in January 2023, with a total score of 199 points for collision safety performance, preventive safety performance, and automatic accident emergency notification systems. To receive the Five Star Award, a vehicle must achieve the highest rating of A rank for collision safety performance and preventive safety performance, and be equipped with an automatic accident emergency notification system.

Starting in fiscal 2023, the new standard will be called “Automobile Safety Performance 2023,” and will include evaluation of devices that suppress acceleration when pedal misapplication occurs and evaluation of responses to pedestrian accidents, with changes to the scoring system.

Overseas, automobile safety evaluation organizations such as the European New Car Assessment Program (Euro NCAP) and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) also evaluate collision safety and advanced safety devices.

 Honda “ZR-V” receives highest rating in 2023 Automotive Safety Performance Index

 Honda’s ZR-V received the highest rating, the Five Star Award, in the 14th edition of the 2023 Automotive Safety Performance Report.

The evaluation result was 185.41 points (out of a total of 197 points). Preventive safety received 88.70 points (out of a total of 89 points), collision safety received 88.71 points (out of a total of 100 points), and the automatic accident emergency notification system received 8 points (out of a total of 8 points).

Safe Car Ranking

When we rank the cars that will be released as current models in 2023 in order of NASVA’s overall ranking of car safety performance, the Subaru Levorg, which received the highest score in the 2020 Car Safety Performance ranking, received the highest score and a Five Star Award. Next came the Subaru Legacy and Legacy Outback, also made by the same company. This highlights the high performance of EyeSight. Furthermore, the top rankings are again dominated by recently released models, clearly showing how improvements in safety equipment have influenced the scores. The ZR-V came in 7th place, a pretty good score.

*Please note: This ranking is based solely on the overall score. For the reasons stated above, the overall score will differ depending on the evaluation year. When viewing, please also consider the year and total score.

*Based on the latest automobile information

NASVA News Release

https://www.nasva.go.jp/gaiyou/pdf/2024/20240510_2.pdf

NASVA

https://www.nasva.go.jp/mamoru/assessment_car/detail/41